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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. They organized VRM Days, a week-long unconference to get techies, venture capitalists, and innovators involved in the project. VRM operates on the customer or individual's side.

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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide

Forum One

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few: She's Geeky , an unconference for women in technology, held a blog day on September 19th which generated many posts including a few from the nonprofit tech space ( here , here , and here ) Blog Action Day is October 15th.